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  2. Cockpit - Wikipedia

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    Cockpit of an Airbus A319 during landing Cockpit of an IndiGo A320. A cockpit or flight deck [1] is the area, on the front part of an aircraft, spacecraft, or submersible, from which a pilot controls the vehicle. Cockpit of an Antonov An-124 Cockpit of an A380. Most Airbus cockpits are glass cockpits featuring fly-by-wire technology.

  3. Douglas C-124 Globemaster II - Wikipedia

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    The Douglas C-124 Globemaster II, nicknamed "Old Shaky", is an American heavy-lift cargo aircraft built by the Douglas Aircraft Company in Long Beach, California.. The C-124 was the primary heavy-lift transport for United States Air Force (USAF) Military Air Transport Service (MATS) during the 1950s and early 1960s, until the Lockheed C-141 Starlifter entered service.

  4. Glass cockpit - Wikipedia

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    Simplified glass cockpit of an Airbus A220, featuring unified LCD screens for both pilots to reduce pilot workload. A glass cockpit is an aircraft cockpit that features an array of electronic (digital) flight instrument displays, typically large LCD screens, rather than traditional analog dials and gauges. [1]

  5. McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II - Wikipedia

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    Series production aircraft also featured splitter plates to divert the boundary layer away from the engine intakes. The aircraft was soon in competition with the XF8U-3 Crusader III. Due to cockpit workload, the Navy wanted a two-seat aircraft and on 17 December 1958 the F4H was declared the winner.

  6. Douglas C-54 Skymaster - Wikipedia

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    The Douglas C-54 Skymaster is a four-engined transport aircraft used by the United States Army Air Forces in World War II and the Korean War.Like the Douglas C-47 Skytrain derived from the DC-3, the C-54 Skymaster was derived from a civilian airliner, the Douglas DC-4.

  7. Gulfstream G650/G700/G800 - Wikipedia

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    The Gulfstream G650 is a large business jet produced by Gulfstream Aerospace. [3] The model is designated Gulfstream GVI in its type certificate. [4] The aircraft can be configured to carry from 11 to 18 passengers over a range of 7,000 nautical miles [nmi] (13,000 km; 8,100 mi) at a top speed of Mach 0.925 (530.6 kn; 982.7 km/h; 610.6 mph).

  8. Cracked window in Boeing aircraft's cockpit forces All Nippon ...

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    An All Nippon Airways flight that departed from Sapporo's New Chitose Airport in Japan on Saturday returned after a crack was discovered in the cockpit window of the Boeing aircraft, the airline said.

  9. Fairchild PT-19 - Wikipedia

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    PT-19 plywood wing center section Fairchild PT-19 Fairchild Ranger L-440 engine Commonwealth Forces cockpit, port side. On 15 May 1939, the M-62 prototype first flew. In a fly-off competition at Wright Field, the aircraft beat out 17 other designs. On 22 September 1939, the Army placed an order for 270 airplanes.